United Daily News


United Daily News is a newspaper published in Taiwan in Chinese. It is considered to support the Pan-Blue Coalition in its editorials.

History

UDN was founded in 1951 by Wang Tiwu as a merger of three newspapers, Popular Daily, National, and the Economic Times. The three newspapers formally merged in 1953. In terms of political orientation, the United Daily News is regarded as taking an editorial line that supports the Pan-blue Coalition. Before Taiwan democratized, it was an opponent of political reform; in the years since Taiwan has democratized, it has advocated policies encouraging cooperation with the mainland.
It is the third biggest newspaper in Taiwan, ranking after the Liberty Times and the Apple Daily.
The evening edition of the paper, the United Evening News, was first published on February 22, 1968. The evening paper shut down after publishing its final issue on June 1, 2020.

Contents

UDN was and to some extent still is a place to publish literature in the Lianhe Fukan literary supplement.
In terms of editorial style and standards, UDN is one of the most literary of Taiwan's newspapers; the Chinese used is baihua vernacular but heavily incorporating usages from classical wenyan Chinese. Once praised for its high standards, UDN has faced stiff competition in recent years, resulting in lowered readership and less money available for proof-reading.
UDN has spawned a group of newspapers, including UDN evening edition and UDN international edition, including an American edition published with the Chinese-American audience in mind.
UDN has published The New York Times International Weekly on Mondays since 2004, changed to Tuesdays later on. This 8-page supplement features a selection of English language articles from The New York Times.

Staff

The publisher is currently owned by Wang Tiwu's daughter, Wang Shaw-lan.
General editors over the years, installed on September 16, the anniversary of UDN's founding.: